This is a coming of age story set at the end of the socialist Allende period in Chile. Based on a real social experiment, a Liberation Theology-influenced rector integrates a group of disadvantaged children into an elite Catholic school, to educate them without discrimination and promote mutual respect among students from different social classes. The growing friendship between middle-class Gonzalo and working-class Pedro is complicated by a blossoming romantic triangle between the boys and a girl from Pedro's neighborhood. Resembling a juvenile Jules and Jim, with a lot of funny moments, Machuca also ends with a dark examination of the unfolding September 1973 military coup, addressing some of the social, economic and political events which affected Chile.

Films this semester will be shown on Thursday and Saturday evenings at 7:30 p.m. Due to ongoing renovations in the Curris Center, the series will move to Faculty Hall 208 on Murray State’s campus for the spring term. All screenings are free and open to the public.